News Corp Relaunches Newslocal’s Mastheads & Encourages Sydney To “Get Closer With Your Local”

News Corp Relaunches Newslocal’s Mastheads & Encourages Sydney To “Get Closer With Your Local”
B&T Magazine
By B&T Magazine



News Corp Australia and Channelzero have released a campaign, encouraging Sydney-siders to ‘Get Closer with Your Local’.

With research suggesting 89 per cent of people use Newslocal to keep up to date with what’s going on in their local community, News Corp are relaunching Newslocal’s mastheads, with a changed format and a new brand campaign.

The brief to reposition the Newslocal brand was handed to Sydney agency, Channelzero.

In addition to the brand repositioning, a group of titles including the Parramatta Advertiser, Manly Daily and the Liverpool Leader, has moved to a compact tabloid format as part of a ‘cleaner design’, this was also communicated as part of the new campaign.

The campaign will run across the titles, on in-house ads, social media and is currently to be seen on out-of-home sites.

Newslocal publisher John McGourty said: “Get closer with your local and the campaign direction is the perfectly captures of NewsLocal’s purpose – to inform, entertain and bring people and families in the local area closer to each other and their communities.

“We are thrilled with Channelzero’s brand concept and are seeing strong engagement from our readers as a result of our new compact paper size and our renewed messaging and commitment to readers”.

Channelzero’s CEO, Mikey Taylor said: “We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with clients to ‘Zero In’ and unlock their brand’s value and drive transformative growth for their business.

“In ‘Get Closer with Your Local’ our team got to a great place for Newslocal.

“It’s an idea that really captures the warmth of the role Newslocal plays for communities and will encourage new readers to increasingly embrace their titles as a way to bring them closer to what they value most”.




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